The St Charles Tu­na­puna Girls’ Ro­man Catholic School proud­ly host­ed its sec­ond An­nu­al Walk-a-Thon on Sat­ur­day, bring­ing to­geth­er stu­dents, teach­ers, par­ents and sup­port­ers in a cel­e­bra­tion of na­tion­al pride, uni­ty and re­spon­si­ble cit­i­zen­ship.

The event marked the grand cul­mi­na­tion of the school’s first term project, “I Love My Coun­try,” a whole-school ini­tia­tive de­signed to help stu­dents ex­plore, ap­pre­ci­ate and cel­e­brate Trinidad and To­ba­go’s rich and di­verse cul­ture and her­itage.

Through­out the term, stu­dents en­gaged in mean­ing­ful learn­ing ex­pe­ri­ences that high­light­ed the beau­ty of our twin-is­land na­tion, its tra­di­tions, peo­ple and val­ues.

More im­por­tant­ly, they dis­cov­ered that be­ing a good cit­i­zen goes be­yond en­joy­ing rights and priv­i­leges to ac­cept­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for one’s ac­tions, re­spect­ing oth­ers, pro­tect­ing our en­vi­ron­ment and mak­ing pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tions to so­ci­ety.

The walk-a-thon took these lessons be­yond the class­room and in­to the com­mu­ni­ty, al­low­ing the young girls to proud­ly demon­strate their love for coun­try while shar­ing a pow­er­ful mes­sage with the wider pub­lic.

Through their par­tic­i­pa­tion, the stu­dents sought to re­mind adults that build­ing a bet­ter T&T is every­one’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.